Listen, every organization has its challenges. I think that in this environment its mostly self-inflicted, and quite frankly there is lip service about change, but none of the stakeholders are really interested in change. The environment is extremely top heavy, and their criteria for promoting hiring management in most cases seem to have personal private agendas attached and nothing to really do with the progression of the business as a service provider. We often wonder if the goal is to just keep things kind of moving along at a baseline until somebody comes along to buy, and make all of the executive staff millionaires three times over. I'm sure someone will chime in and savvily denounce most of my statements, or even introduce them as unfounded, inaccurate, or just plain wrong, and that is fine. I hope that readers will read all of the posts here, gain a larger picture and make their own decisions based on what they read. I am simply posting to provide an accurate picture of the climate, and provide a forewarning to not only prospective employees, but current management if they care to listen.